Inside Miranda Lambert And Gwen Stefani’s Relationship
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Remember when Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert gave the country music world stomach butterflies, singing Bare Skin Rug? “Now I ain’t afraid to be lonely,” Shelton sang to Lambert, “but I still wanna learn about love, I’m a hillbilly child raised in the wild, come lay down on my bare skin rug.” They were a pair, we thought, meant to last.
But at the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards, it’s Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani who are all geared up to perform their new single, “Happy Anywhere” (via Instagram). What’s the song about? “I could be #HappyAnywhere with YOU…” gushed Shelton to his girlfriend, Stefani on Instagram. The power couple is still busy soaking up the success of their country music chart-topper, “Nobody But You,” in which a lovestruck Shelton serenades an equally besotted Stefani, “don’t wanna live without you, I don’t wanna even breathe, I don’t wanna dream about you, wanna wake up with you next to me.” The lyrics are a level more infatuated then “Bare Skin Rug,” don’t you think? Shelton’s ex-wife, the country music goddess Miranda Lambert, is up for three nominations at the 2020 ACM Awards: Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Music Event of the Year (via Newsbreak). Lambert, in other words, will be in the audience watching Stefani harmonize with her ex. How do Stefani and Lambert feel about each other, really?
But at the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards, it’s Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani who are all geared up to perform their new single, “Happy Anywhere” (via Instagram). What’s the song about? “I could be #HappyAnywhere with YOU…” gushed Shelton to his girlfriend, Stefani on Instagram. The power couple is still busy soaking up the success of their country music chart-topper, “Nobody But You,” in which a lovestruck Shelton serenades an equally besotted Stefani, “don’t wanna live without you, I don’t wanna even breathe, I don’t wanna dream about you, wanna wake up with you next to me.” The lyrics are a level more infatuated then “Bare Skin Rug,” don’t you think?
Shelton’s ex-wife, the country music goddess Miranda Lambert, is up for three nominations at the 2020 ACM Awards: Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Music Event of the Year (via Newsbreak). Lambert, in other words, will be in the audience watching Stefani harmonize with her ex. How do Stefani and Lambert feel about each other, really?
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s romance didn’t take Miranda Lambert by surprise
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The truth is, Lambert never admitted to having hard feelings towards Stefani at the time. Twitter exchanges between Lambert and Shelton in the aftermath of their divorce are surprisingly friendly, seeming to confirm that Lambert, may, indeed, have moved on (via E!). While neither Lambert nor Stefani has ever publicly commented about their feelings towards each other, Lambert’s music is full of hints.
Does Miranda Lambert throws shade at Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton through music?
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Her 2016 album, The Weight of These Wings, gives plenty of insight into Lambert’s post-divorce distress. With what Billboard calls “quivering vulnerability and raw emotion,” Lambert sang of heartbreak’s aftershocks and gave fans reason to speculate she wasn’t really over Shelton. Fans wondered whether the track “Six Degrees of Separation” was about Blake Shelton. In it, Lambert sang, “I’m out of your reach geographically, you still find a way to get a hold on me.”
